Mrs. Burkhardt's Classroom News
April 12, 2024
Classroom Happenings
Wonders:
This week our class read stories about how children can help at home. Children discussed taking responsibility for cleaning, caring for a pet, doing errands, and other chores.
Here are some activities that you can do with your child to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing.
Word Workout
- Vocabulary: chores, contribute Discuss different ways your child can help out at home. Create a list of jobs on a chore chart.
- My Words to Know
High-Frequency Words: help, too Write the words help and too, and ask your child to write each word. Think of sentences that use both words. Write the sentences down and read them aloud. Have your child underline the words help and too.
Category Words: Household Furniture Play a game of “Simon Says.” Use household furniture terms as you give commands to act out chores.
Phonics: long a Invite your child to play a rhyming game with words that have the long a sound. Guide your child in writing and sounding out the rhyming words.
Comprehension: sequence
Have your child draw pictures and tell a story about what happens first, next, and last.
Bridges Math:
The main topics over the next few weeks will cover: addition and subtraction, measuring, and money.
Science:
Living and Non-living.
We have an incubator in our room with 36 eggs that we are waiting to hatch. 20 days to go!! Today we made a chick art project. We will discuss the chicken life cycle over the next few weeks.
Important Information
-Literacy bags will continue to come home through the month of May. Keep up the good reading!
-2 Field trips in May. More information will come home.
-We will have a Kindergarten Celebration in the park in June. More information will come home soon.
-When practice sheets come home each week, completed work gets a STAR on the super improver wall!
-No school on April 19th. PD day for teachers.